Central Hall Westminster was full with around 3,000 people attending an international conference against war on Saturday 20 June. The Stop the War Coalition, established
Month: June 2026
These six texts share a single concern: how political solidarity gets constructed, narrowed, and sometimes disabled by the frameworks through which societies under pressure are
From People and Nature We can support resistance to Russian imperialism while opposing NATO Intro: I put this argument at a Green Left Zoom discussion
On Sunday, June 21, Colombian voters went to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. That same night, after an
On Sunday, June 14, 2026, pensioners from Shush, Karkheh and Haft-Tappeh, towns in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, again gathered outside the local Social Security office,
From Mina’s Substack. When Marjane Satrapi passed away on June 4—tragic, unexpected, and far too soon—the tributes to Persepolis were accompanied by a critique that
The current and very public discourse between Poland and Ukraine over a military unit named after “heroes of the UPA” has produced the diplomatic equivalent
In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the
A note on Angela Davis before we begin. Her contributions to exposing racial and social injustice in the United States are significant and worth stating
We gather today in London at a moment when Russia’s full‑scale invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate cities, workplaces and communities. Every day brings new
Trilingual Hong Kong newspapers from the 1940s, a patriotic Japanese business man, and Imperial Appropriation of Decolonial Discourse Note: This article was originally written and
Transcript of episode 76 of the weekly El Faro English podcast, Central America in Minutes. In Nicaragua, the U.S. sanctions more than 100 officials after the
There is a version of Soviet history that circulates in certain corners of the left, passed around like a corrective to Reagan-era Cold War propaganda:
On June 1, Ethiopia held parliamentary elections. Results should come out this week, and Reuters along with many other outlets is predicting a “landslide win”
A delegation of Alliance for Workers’ Liberty members visited Lviv and Kyiv in late May. This followed on from earlier delegations in 2022 and 2023,
Thailand’s military uses its huge Reserve Officer Training Corps program, which enrols 100,000 high school students every year, to instil conservative nationalism and loyalty to
From Africa is a Country Although the UAE doesn’t occupy territory, it arms militias, controls ports, and launders violence through the language of development. Sudan
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:01:42 Speaker intro 00:03:36 Democratic backsliding and/in India 00:24:16 Q&A I (political democracy, substantive democracy) 00:30:09 Populist religious nationalism, ethnic democracy and fascist tendencies 01:05:14 Q&A II (Hindu identity, Hindutva, caste, fascism, populism) 01:37:00 Caste, class, the Left and democracy in India
How do socialists reconcile their opposition to military expenditure (especially increased military expenditure) with support for Ukraine being provided with the weapons it needs to
On Monday, June 1, Colombians woke up with an undeniable moral hangover. We felt sad. And angry. It was the morning after the vote in
After a month of protests and roadblocks in Bolivia, the situation is contradictory and difficult, but there is also an opening that creates the possibility
In December 2022, Sharon Slater, president of an Arizona-based conservative Christian organisation called Family Watch International, signed a memorandum of cooperation with the International Islamic Fiqh
From Positions: Politics Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the PRC’s State Council announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, 2026 this question